​Unspoken truths of Khalistan Movement

The Khalistani terrorists and their apologists, in a bid to hoodwink the masses, often keep on harping that “their Sikh struggle is not directed against any race, religion or community” but it is for “smashing the chains of slavery from around the necks of sikhs”and is directed against “the tyrannical brahmanical rulers at the centre.” But as the saying goes: the deeds are stronger than the words, the hundreds of cold-blooded mass murders of Hindus and ordinary toiling masses, their venomous communal tirade against the Hindus and Nirankaris (an off shoot of Sikhism), the forcible closure of all Nirankari Bhawans throughout the state, a spree of lootings, extortions, rapes and beatings let loose on the common people, the various fascist edicts aimed at crippling the democratic rights, aspirations and the lives of people of Punjab and numerous such other acts, all deride their pious exhortations. Let us examine them, albeit briefly, through their own words and deeds.

Thoroughgoing Communalists Contrary to their loud claims, the Khalistani terrorists have nothing to do with the aspirations or interests of ordinary Punjabi people or even the Sikh masses. Instead, they are out and out and die-hard Sikh communal fundamentalists who are usuing communalism as a weapon in their reactionary power-struggle to grab the throne and resources of Punjab.
The various differences, dissentions and inter-gang warfare among different Khalistani factions notwithstanding, all of them adhere to the ideology of late Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and draw inspiration from his life and works. So it will be quite worthwhile to examine the preachings and practice of this rustic preacher-turned-politician in order to grasp the thinking and practice of Khalistani terrorists. Let us see what Bhindranwale has to say.
Bhindranwale, issuing a clarion call to the Sikhs to get armed in order to confront the Hindus, says:

“….Get armed. There is no need of getting licences. If the son of a Hindu needs no licence for possessing a grenade, if this off-spring of sheep and goats needs no licences for arms why the son of a lion (Singh) should ever bow and plead: ‘Please give me a weapon.’ Can’t confront a policeman…. understandable since they possess too many weapons. But if you Sikhs get thrashing from a shopkeeper, from a topiwala (i.e.a Hindu-editor), if the son of a lion gets a kick from the sheep and keeps quiet, he should rather die in shame….. Are we Singhs upto this much…?”

Bhindranwale, not only stubbornly refused to condemn the murders of innocent Hindus, but at times he himself advocated them. When, in the wake of a murder of some police inspector by terrorists, suspected to be Bhindranwale’s men, the police detained a bus sent by Bhindranwale to bring some of his men, he, red with rage, immediately issued a warning to the police:

“If the vehicle is not released by 5 P.M. and unconditionally I will slaughter 5000 Hindus in just one hour.”

Video of Bindrawala
Justifying his threat of slaughtering Hindus en masse he propounded his thesis:“If a Hindu dies, the centre is shaken to its very roots. One must strike where it pinches most. Why to strike at a place where it hardly pinches?”
A blantant Sikh communalist robed inside a pious and priestly-looking Blindranwale, is laid bare in all its nakedness when in a tape-recorded and widely circulated message to the Sikhs he unleashes an all-out open war against the Hindu community.

“I humbly requested and got this detail from an educated person. Each one of us (Sikhs-edit) is upto 35 (Hindus). Just 35 and not a hundred. They are mere 66 crore. Each sikh has to take upon just 35 and no more, not even 36.”

Inheriting, implementing and emulating Bhindranwale’s these venomous communal preachings, the Khalistani terrorists throughout their counter-revolutionary onslaught against the people of Punjab, kept on enacting the mass murders of innocent Hindus. They tried their every bit to incite Hindu-Sikh communal pogroms. The Khalistani terrorists issued/numerous threatening calls to the Hindus to flee Puniab. Hindu students were killed enmasse and the college authorities were issued instructions to admit only Sikh students in the professional colleges of the state. As per Khalistani commandments, all top posts in the administration, departments, universities should be filled with Sikhs, only Sikhs should be recruited as TV and radio announcers. Fleeing Hindus were forbidden to take their property along. Any Sikh, found guilty of taking care of a Hindu’s property or of tilling his land, was to be punished. According to the Khalistani’s, only those Hindus could stay back in Punjab who had reconciled to the sepremacy of Sikhs and wholeheartedly supported the Khalistani struggle. Numerous such other communal dictates were issued from time to time to the Hindus residing in Punjab.An Avowed Anti-People Force
The Khalistani terrorists are guilty of committing innumerable crimes against the innocent ordinary people of Punjab — Hindus and Sikhs alike. Brandishing AK 47’s and other sophisticated weapons they let loose a reign of terror against the people of Punjab, making their lives a living hell. As a result of a spate of killings, mass beatings, tortures, extortions, rapes, insults and other intimidating tactics, a large number of Hindus, well-to-do Sikh peasants, employees and many sections of self-respecting populace had to flee their houses in the villages to more safer places inside the adjoining cities or even states. People hesitate even to whisper against the Khalistani terrorists. Even then, hundreds of horror stories of Khalistani brutalities are widely known. Here is a brief description of Khalistani crimes against the people.Killings of Innocent People:
Starting from 1982, throughout the decade, the Khalistani terrorists continued gunning down mercilessly the innocent people of Punjab, both Hindus and Sikhs, without any let up. The people were blasted to bits by planting and exploding bombs in crowded bazars public places, trains and buses, cinema houses and other busy places. According to a most conservative estimate, the Khalistani terrorists have butchered more than 20,000 people in the past ten years on the self-presumed pretext of their being police informers, anti-Sikh or defying their dictates. Even women, breast-sucking infants, children or aged people were not spared. There are very few villages in Punjab where someone or the other has not fallen prey to Khalistani bullets.
Hindu passengers were alighted from the buses and trains and mercilessly murdered. Gruesome mass murders were committed for avenging the fake police encounters of the Khalistani terrorists. Whenever the Khalistani terrorists came under the intense pressure of the state security forces, the Khalistani invariably resorted to mass killings to loosen up the pressure. Again, the Khalistani terorists took to mass murders to divert the attention of the people and for sabotaging a negotiated settlement among the various reactionary ruling class factions in Punjab, whenever the opportunity arose. They even enacted massacres for just recording their presence and killing potential. Most often, the victims of Khalistani wrath without exception, were the innocent toiling masses of Punjab.
The terrorists, inhuman and beastly as they are, often resorted to threats of eliminating their purported enemies alongwith their entire families. Hundreds of such families were completely wiped out. Apart for killing by raining from assault rifles and through bomb blasts, they at times hanged the people to death, burnt them alive or dragged them behind vehicles till death. In some cases, even properties were not spared. The farm houses, standing crops and livestock of the victims were burnt or destroyed. Many women were gang raped before killing them in a most ignominious fashion. More than 300 relatives of police personnel, mostly constables and home guard jawans, were brutally killed. Some whole families were decimated. Thousands of people, had to flee, leaving their homes and hearth’s behind, to the cities just for escaping the wrath of Khalistani terrorists.
The victims, that fell prey to the Khalistani bullets included eminent revolutionary Punjabi poets, writers, academicians, engineers, trade union and political leaders, intellectuals and dozens of other worthy sons of Punjab. Their loss is an irreparable damage to Punjab.
To sum up, one can hardly come across a Punjabi, be it Hindu or a Sikh who most confidently feels secure from the Khalistani terrorists. Even Khalistani terrorists feel equally insecure from the rival terrorists or their own companions. Scores of them have perished in inter-gang and inner-gang warfare. Insecurity and terror haunts the whole of Punjab.

BRUTAL MASS-KILLINGS BY KHALISTANI TERRORISTS – Partial List

(This tabulation of ghastly massacres at the hands of Khalistani terrorists is incomplete, to a large extent.)
Date Place Description of the Incident
Year 1983